Europe

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear is in Europe for an economic development trip. Beshear is scheduled to speak this week at the International CAR-Symposium in Germany. More than a thousand automobile executives gather for the yearly meeting.

Beshear will showcase the commonwealth’s advantages in Germany, Spain and Austria and meet with European companies already established in Kentucky. European businesses employ nearly 26,000 Kentuckians. Twenty percent of new jobs announced last year in the commonwealth were from foreign-owned companies, including those coming to Fulton with Kayser Automotive Systems.